The US military has removed photos of the B-29 bomber “Enola Gay” — which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan — apparently because it contains the word “gay,” which violates their new anti-DEI rules.
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Here in Australia we had a cheese, that’s been around forever, called Coon. It was the family surname of the original makers. Now it’s called Cheer. 🙄
I refuse to buy it, it wasn’t racist, it was a fucking family name. We can be pathetic too sadly. 😡
Meanwhile, in Russia's latest puppet state, the United Democratic People's Republic of Ameristan #UDPRA:
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Mar-A-Lardo Caves on #Tariffs as Markets Drop, Faces Backlash for Firing Veterans, Whines and Whines and Whines about Lack of Appreciation for His Treason: #ACloserLook https://youtu.be/G41k0uyfBpM?si=TSDmefkNeScTkIJm
His grandparents on his father’s side were German immigrants from Bavaria. Who lied about being German and claimed to be Swedish instead for a long time. Interesting.
What the actual fuck? These people are insane. Oh, and there are credible reports that Speaker Mike Johnson has frequented gay bars. Lots of reports. Nothing says, “I’m in the closet.”, more than being afraid of the word “gay”. Check your Speaker MAGAts.
Exactly! And it’s the fact that they push legislation that hurts gay people, and they’re loud and obnoxious about it, when they themselves can’t admit the truth.
After all the agonising about using the atomic bomb on civilians—“I am become death” and all that—in 2025 the controversy in the US is over the name of the pilot’s mother being the same as a term for homosexuality banned by Trump’s DEI police.
DOGE boys are competing with each other for the largest bites of the quickly-dying body of the federal government. Desperate to impress Elon Musk, like wolves pulling a deer apart, one of them ends up with a mouthful of shit.
Definition of a gay plane: a plane that is sexually attracted to another plane of the same sex, uses they/them pronouns, and adopts the surname "Gay." Ban those motherfuckers.
This really is taking things too far. DEI denialism is one thing, but what they're doing is erasing the careers and the actual people of those who are not white men. Instead of erasing history of past DEI accomplishments, why not just declare that times are different and DEI is no longer practiced.
I guess some chucklef*ck in Washington can help Imperial Japan eliminate Torpedo Squadron 8 at Midway, since the only survivor of the squadron was Ensign George Gay.
This is just childish bullshit. Like what is going on? Ppl need to ask the Republicans about this shit, make them answer for it. Make them defend the ridiculous clown show 🤦♀️
This is what happens when you put ignorant 12 year-old boys in charge that are so fragile they cannot even see the word gay in any context without getting the vapors. (And perhaps more uncomfy feelings?)
Weird that in trumps youth, gay only meant happy & fun. Many women were named Gaye. We read 1st grade books with the word gay used often. It was easy to read, understand, spell, and rhyme.
How petty and stupid and America is allowing this to happen and this creature is in our White House what is wrong with Americans what is wrong with Americans what is wrong with Americans God help us
Remember the time a conservative paper with an anti-woke editorial policy published a story about the accomplishments of celebrated runner Tyson Homosexual?
Of course that sort of thing has been going on for decades, and sometimes it’s been for political correctness. When Tim Russ was cast in “Star Trek: Voyager” TV Guide said that his character, Tuvok, would be the “first African-American Vulcan.” Which does not exactly work.
My son did a tour in Afghanistan and a tour in Iraq as a US Marine. He has medical issues and PTSD and counts on the VA for treatment. He works hard and has a family. He voted for Trump. What happens to him and other injured vets if the VA gets ransacked by DOGE?
I’m so sorry that he may suffer the consequences of his actions. I was really hoping only other people would suffer consequences for his actions. So unfair!
My sister reminds everyone that she is a veteran. Veteran's Day is holy. Her 2nd husband didn't know who Anne Frank was. He's 62.
They both voted for Der Orangefuhror, despite my desperate pleas for them not too. I have not spoken to them since the election, but wondering how they like him now.
I don’t understand how any veteran voted for him. We all heard the same insanity he spewed in every rant, rally and campaign stop. How could they think he would improve their lives
They and 67m other Americans have been duped by repackaged white nationalist xenophobia and rhetoric. Trust me when I say this: As an American OIF/GWOT veteran, we remember our oath.
He voted for Trump because he wanted to remove waste and fraud from the public purse, without realising that *he* was always going to be the person that Trump was going to target because he’s an easy target. He’s served his purpose. To paraphrase the Cheeto, he prefers soldiers who don’t get PTSD…
He gets exactly what he voted for. I'm sorry for you as his parent that you have to watch him suffer the consequences of his actions, but he's an adult and he made his bed and will lie in it. Hopefully he might learn something from this experience and it will be a wake up call to educate himself.
Well, they’re discontinuing transgenic mice because they think it sounds like transgender. It’s like a racist bigoted robot programed by Tucker Carlson was on a search and destroy mission for anything that even partially overlaps with a culture war buzz word.
Are we going to remove smoke detectors because it sounds like woke defectors? Are we discontinuing all of our stealth tech because it’s black? Is Pete Hegseth not allowed to do black ops? I’m amazed that when that Blackhawk helicopter crashed, they didn’t blame the helicopter for being black.
I hope someone with the access and skill is actively copying these images to preserve them. This is catastrophic rewriting of history! What a disservice….
Listen up everyone, my disable Veteran husband was just denied care for a serviced connected issue by a dermatologist in Las Cruces NM because the VA isn’t approving procedures anymore. Thank you trump and President musk.
That might have bipartisan crossover appeal, believe it or not. I think it’s settled down some over the years, but there’s a lot of people who believe this should not be displayed or celebrated because of what it & its crew did.
The museum is full of aircraft from all nations from all wars that featured air warfare. WWII era includes fighters and bombers from Nazi Germany and Japan along with allied aircraft. The history of aviation is largely a history of modern war.
I know that. I was just there in January lol. But because of the mass death and suffering that the atomic bomb dropped from this aircraft caused, there has in the past been controversy over whether it should be displayed.
If they’re going to wipe away the pics because of the word “gay”, keep it out
Word “gay” removed via AI assisted software algorithm data star link application. Too bad the definition can’t be captured in cultural and historical context of the times. stupid machines.
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It was the name of the pilot’s mother. They referred to the bomb as “Little Boy.” In 1980, OMD did a beautiful, haunting protest song named after her. Listen to it.
No more transactions either. Only him or her actions 🙄
Looking for scapegoats to detract from dismantling our government, slashing jobs with no review or thought of repercussions and gutting our benefits to counter giving billionaires a free ride
In the case of the Enola Gay, it was named after the pilot’s mother. Has nothing to do with being happy or queer. They are too stupid to even know this fact!
Yeah, we need to show every American that we are disgusted by him and his inaction on fixing the country. Partly those people still think this is politics. What a worthless pathetic society of the biggest losers.
Excuse me, not ALL of us are losers that voted for him. Those of us that didn’t are mad as hell about what is happening!! 🤬 Don’t lump all Americans in to the same category!!
Posting this does nothing for you or the people you care about. Let the Canadians be mad at us. WE'RE mad, too. "Not all men"-ing comments on social media is a huge waste of your time. Focus on the suffering and what you can do about it, not the people angry at it.
It is indeed not helping, and the irony is really that this thinking had made that situation possible at all. No one feels responsible when Republicans are killing people. You all let it happen, it is YOUR COUNTRY. Sure, you didn't MADE it happen, but you can't pretend it's not your country anymore.
Never seen a whole society go psychotic, have you?
Best to disengage as much as possible, protect yourself first. Best case, the major damage stays internal to our borders. But most likely the debris field will be much larger.
Like an exploding rocket stopping flights over all of Florida.
I JUST HOPE AFTER THIS COMPLETE BULLSHIT MOVE, THAT THESE SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN THAT THEY WILL NEVER VOTE FOR THESE MF'S IN ANY STATE OR ANY ELECTION AGAIN,SPEAK UP AND STAND UP
Or lead poisoning. Half of america has lost it’s cognitive skills because of lead poisoning. It’s clear what half. It’s sad but a scientific fact. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2118631119
The even worse lost of emphatic skills comes from the extreme capitalistic system itself and has been an accelerating process, ever since neoliberalism was introduced in the 70ies. Combine the two, and you’ll get a fascist regime with psychopaths at every leading position.
And there you have the Orange Pustule.
Actually, he’s purposely stupid and and almost completely ignorant about much of the planet except his utter lust for power and money while being very adept and sly in his criminality. At least in his mind.
Fun fact - global heating is going to do further cognitive impairment, while increasing tendency to authoritarian personalities and violence. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Wait, wait, all Americans are responsible. They all are deciding what is the talk of their society, they all can say "till here and not further" and anything. They didn't cause they are small little dumb cowards. They never cared to talk with their own about the situation......
.... Republican voters voted in the DEATH OF AMERICANS, year after year. And somehow the other Americans didn't cared that their own are voting in the DEATH OF AMERICANS. So now the DEATH OF AMERICANS is normalized thanks to ALL AMERICANS. Cowards.
Americans, that is how dumb Americans are, and they always were that, 8 years ago when Trump took office, they didn't understood the severity of the situation. Those are indeed the dumbest people on the planet. What a worthless society.
I’m so Goddamn GLAD! that I got out the service in 2019. If I was in now, dealing with this crap and listening to the more ignorant of my fellow soldiers applauding it, I’d absolutely lose my shit 💩
We laugh, but they're already going that way. Cutting a program to teach disabled high school kids job skills, apparently because someone ran an ai 'search' & the description talked about kids learning to 'transition' to the workplace. SMDH
Don’t care, wasn’t Trump or Elon’s idea so it has to go. When they realize the eff-up they’ve made, it will be reinstated and they’ll try to spin it like Trump saved the day.
Could not be more perfect an image to express this moment, other than a picture of the White House, some suit with a red armband frantically trying to take this off the wall.
Okay, removing historically references to it are stupid, but let’s not be celebrating the plane that dropped one of only two atomic bombs ever used in warfare.
Looks like they're targeting deletion by Wednesday, or at least identifying what's to be deleted by then. Tibbetts' photo in front of the plane named after his Mom is still up, but maybe they realized it was truly unrelated to DEI.
It still blows my mind that they're just using an automated script/AI to search for keywords and then deleting content with zero understanding of their context across the entire government.
It's even ironic that Meta *doesn't* use AI to identify the thousands of "AGENT LINDA SMITH" profiles - These "Tech Bros" can't use AI where it would actually be useful.
When I went to report them, there were over 100 general Paul LaCameras on FB #meta. Rest assured that they are not using their AI for anything useful whatsoever.
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How is this not illegal? I thought we had laws on what the government is required to archive.
I refuse to buy it, it wasn’t racist, it was a fucking family name. We can be pathetic too sadly. 😡
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tibbets-45
Update from #Ukraine | The Truth behind Trump and #Putin Peace agreement | Why Peace isn't possible?
https://youtu.be/R0l8zYiu64Y?si=Xn3iNQT41gHEKVpR
https://youtu.be/G41k0uyfBpM?si=TSDmefkNeScTkIJm
https://youtu.be/1kKBUyJnpcI?si=zpB_c-bcp_Cx5I_g
then again, given how some people use LLM assistants as the proverbial hammer, I wouldn't be surprised
It could be a thing...
😂🤣😂
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... I'd watch that show.
And the Bomb Bay Sapphires!
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There is no point in erasing an aircraft, when it was named innocuously.
Hypocrisy is the name of their game.
And Krasnov himself has been closeted since the 70s & his affair with Roy Cohn.
This isn’t new to fascism. Nazis embraced homosexuality before they later rejected it. Ppl seem to forget just how gay the Nazi movement was.
The article, along with extra links, is in this Bluesky thread. Tap above the 'article pic' and scroll ⏬
Except it's not.
Save the date!
https://apnews.com/article/snowboarder-cocaine-fbi-a0c821668c80a07953508ecd8c7f63de?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter
Nobody said these were logical, rational people.
Of course that sort of thing has been going on for decades, and sometimes it’s been for political correctness. When Tim Russ was cast in “Star Trek: Voyager” TV Guide said that his character, Tuvok, would be the “first African-American Vulcan.” Which does not exactly work.
History will record this as the time period where rational thought was suspended.
First they abolish the history and presence of diverse individuals, then they fully abolish the diverse people.
(jk😉)
They both voted for Der Orangefuhror, despite my desperate pleas for them not too. I have not spoken to them since the election, but wondering how they like him now.
Keeping
America
Dumb
And
STUPID
Instead of leveling up to be what America needs, he's dragging America down to be what he wants.
Just kill us already, climate change. We are by far the dumbest species.
These are amateurs.
If they’re going to wipe away the pics because of the word “gay”, keep it out
The Onion will be completely out of business within another month.
Gay Valimont’s victory in Florida’s 1st Congressional District special election’s critical. Your financial contributions will make a real difference. Help support Gay’s campaign so she can represent us with dedication and drive for a gayer future! 😍
Looking for scapegoats to detract from dismantling our government, slashing jobs with no review or thought of repercussions and gutting our benefits to counter giving billionaires a free ride
The party of free speech.
#Equity
#Inclusion
#Accessibility
WTAF is wrong with these people?
What are they gonna do next… Remove the name black? Oops that would impact me because that's my last name.
Best to disengage as much as possible, protect yourself first. Best case, the major damage stays internal to our borders. But most likely the debris field will be much larger.
Like an exploding rocket stopping flights over all of Florida.
Actually, he’s purposely stupid and and almost completely ignorant about much of the planet except his utter lust for power and money while being very adept and sly in his criminality. At least in his mind.
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Political ponerology : a science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes
by Łobaczewski, Andrzej
2006
https://archive.org/details/politicalponerol0000obac
He was later disabled by polio, and strangled to death by a contraption he invented to lift him from bed. (It was ruled suicide).
it's the only way I can explain it
#FuckMAGA
#DiversityISOurStrength
Stop banning History!
He's double dicking.
https://youtu.be/d5XJ2GiR6Bo?si=bkaqI1W6YgZMoeXR
Please tell me after the Orange Shit Stain is gone we can make all this stupidity revert to how/what it was?
They could pencil in an "r"
and how many are closeted gay men?
I can't imagine living your life vocalizing hate about something that is your entire
being!
it's probably torture and the bottled up
resentment
using gov to lash out, rest are evil
none have an excuse